Indiana: Indiana State Historical Bureau Markers
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMW7U_wabash-and-erie-canal_Evansville-IN.html
Completed from Lake Erie to Evansville, 1853. Used till 1865. Passing from 5th St. to 1st Ave., canal widened into basin for docks covering part of this square.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMW7W_mccurdy-sears-building_Evansville-IN.html
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Built in 1920 for financier and philanthropist William H. McCurdy (1853-1930), president of Old National Bank. Constructed of reinforced concrete with poured concrete floors, employing architectural developments newly pioneered for industrial …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMW7X_new-harmony_New-Harmony-IN.html
Location of two attempts at communal living: The Harmonists under Reverend George Rapp, 1814-1825, and the Owenites under philanthropist Robert Owen, 1825-1826. New Harmony remained, an important cultural center for many, years thereafter.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMW8B_new-harmony-workingmens-institute_New-Harmony-IN.html
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William Maclure and other intellectuals came to New Harmony 1826 to join Robert Owen's utopian experiment. Maclure established the Workingmen's Institute 1838 to serve as model of self-education for laborers. Operated in various New Harmony site…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWES_bartholomew-county-courthouse_Columbus-IN.html
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County formed by Indiana General Assembly 1821. Thirty acres of land were purchased, and John Tipton donated thirty acres, for county seat. State commissioners named county seat Tiptona—after Tipton; local elected commissioners renamed i…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWET_t-c-steele-home-and-studio_Nashville-IN.html
Theodore Clement Steele (1847-1926) lived and painted south of here, 1907-1926. Member of Hoosier Group of American impressionists, his landscape paintings captured picturesque panoramas characteristic of area. Property is State Historic Site; listed in Nat…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWEW_monroe-county-courthouse_Bloomington-IN.html
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County formed by Indiana General Assembly and Bloomington selected as county seat 1818. One-story, two-room log cabin built 1818 as first courthouse and school. Second courthouse, built here 1819-1826, was two stories, brick with stone foundatio…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMX10_morgans-raid_Vernon-IN.html
During the Civil War, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan led a raid into southern Indiana, July 8-13, 1863. On July 11, he demanded the surrender of Vernon. Colonel Hugh T. Williams, Indiana Legion, replied that Morgan "must take it by hard fighting." No …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMX11_samuel-thornton-scott-1777-1827_Vincennes-IN.html
First resident Presbyterian minister in Indiana Territory, 1808. Headed the first school under the authority of the board of trustees of Vincennes University (a grammar school), 1811-1815. Served as member of board of trustees of Vincennes University, 1813-…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMX12_bedford-courthouse-square-historic-district_Bedford-IN.html
Courthouse square, part of original 1825 plat, surrounded by nineteenth and early twentieth century commercial buildings in various architectural styles. Limestone facing quarried and milled by local industry. Listed in National Register of Historic Places …